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penismightier posted:I can't imagine why anyone would prefer Argento's cut to Romero's, what drove you to that particular madness? We've actually had this conversation before. It's not madness, it's just a simple preference for Argento's freak-culture, succinct, pure comic book cinema over George A. Romero's Apocalypse Now. I acknowledge the triumph of the latter, it just loses my interest once they get to the mall. With Argento's Zombie, my interest is sustained throughout.
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K. Waste posted:We've actually had this conversation before. It's not madness, it's just a simple preference for Argento's freak-culture, succinct, pure comic book cinema over George A. Romero's Apocalypse Now. I acknowledge the triumph of the latter, it just loses my interest once they get to the mall. With Argento's Zombie, my interest is sustained throughout. Oh, right! We have. You're still nuts, brah.
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penismightier posted:Oh, right! We have. You're still nuts, brah. Between variations on The Thing, Psycho, and Dawn of the Dead, I've long since accepted that that's just your bag, man.
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K. Waste posted:Between variations on The Thing, Psycho, and Dawn of the Dead, I've long since accepted that that's just your bag, man. We're destined to destroy each other. Bummer.
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That Crimson Peak trailer looks great! But I worry that the film's most obvious strength (its atmosphere) is going to be directly at odds with the CGI's efforts to yank me out of the film. It was a pretty big surprise to see straight up ghosts in the trailer, you'd expect them to keep that in reserve.
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Basebf555 posted:Also, watch the Sleepaway Camp sequels for a female slasher killing male victims. Are there any others? It happens so rarely I can only think of Inside off the top of my head but that was a female victim, with a few people that got in the way Hellbent had slutty gay men as victims but the killer was a guy as well.
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I don't know if you'd want to count exploitation revenge films under that category, but if so there are definitely several.
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The conversation from last page was dope and made me wonder why we got Freddy vs. Jason and not Michael vs. Jason. Or Michael vs. Freddy vs. Jason. ... vs. Jaws.
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MantisToboggan posted:What's the weather like, up supermechagodzilla's rear end? I...don't understand this argument. That is a motivation.
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Grendels Dad posted:The conversation from last page was dope and made me wonder why we got Freddy vs. Jason and not Michael vs. Jason. Or Michael vs. Freddy vs. Jason. We're gonna need a bigger script!
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Just wanted to pop in and say I've really enjoyed the debate going on over the last several pages. It's stuff like this that make this thread one of my top go-to places on the internet daily.
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Silver Newt posted:Are there any others? It happens so rarely I can only think of Inside off the top of my head but that was a female victim, with a few people that got in the way e: not sure if Bedevilled would squarely fall into the slasher genre though, now that I think about it. edit again: also the Thai movie The Meat Grinder: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1603808/
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BuckarooBanzai posted:I don't spend a lot of time in this thread so I apologize if you've all covered it already. I just saw Proxy on Netflix and it was incredible. I won't say much about it, and you should watch it knowing as little as possible about it ahead of time. It's just great. Seconding that this was pretty good, and definitely benefits from going in cold. The only thing I might warn people about is that it's not actually a horror movie. It is a great crime thriller, though. (Spoiled just in case.)
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Silver Newt posted:Are there any others? It happens so rarely I can only think of Inside off the top of my head but that was a female victim, with a few people that got in the way haute tension I'm having deja vu
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Silver Newt posted:Are there any others? It happens so rarely I can only think of Inside off the top of my head but that was a female victim, with a few people that got in the way You're Next.
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So will the rest of the Friday the 13th movies ever come out on blu? It's been two years since the box set, and it's still pricey as gently caress. Are the DVD releases decent-looking? After the Nightmare on Elm Street blus, I kind of like having reference-level copies of really trashy looking poo poo.
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Proxy was even better than I expected.
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I saw What We Do in the Shadows last night, and I highly recommend it highly if you can see it. It's a mockumentary that revolves around four vampires sharing a house in New Zealand. It's hilarious, and mostly succeeds because it's not afraid to be corny or disturbing. The effects are impressive for being a Kickstarted comedy. The only flaw is that it reaches too much for a climax after being mostly plotless. It ends up sabotaging one of its better running gags in the process. Still, I feel like I would have been obsessed with this movie if I was fourteen.
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Silver Newt posted:Are there any others? It happens so rarely I can only think of Inside off the top of my head but that was a female victim, with a few people that got in the way The Sleepaway Camp sequels are pretty unique in that way I guess. There are a few slashers where the killer is a woman but its treated as a last minute twist, so the rest of the movie leading up to it doesn't really make use of the idea of a female slasher. The most obvious one is Friday the 13th, but one of the Scream sequels did that as well.
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Jack Gladney posted:So will the rest of the Friday the 13th movies ever come out on blu? It's been two years since the box set, and it's still pricey as gently caress. Are the DVD releases decent-looking? After the Nightmare on Elm Street blus, I kind of like having reference-level copies of really trashy looking poo poo. I thought the ones they had on Netflix looked good, but I'm not sure how many of those were in HD. Friday 2 looked just fine though I will say that those movies are by and large a lot more flatter looking that the Nightmares.
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I'm having a really miserable winter and I need to shock myself out of complacency, so I'm looking for particularly extreme examples of disturbing films. The kind of movies where, after you see them, you're hoping that whoever made or liked them is locked up someplace. My frame of reference would be something like A Serbian Film or Salo or the tail end of Megan Is Missing, although your examples don't have to be sexual (or good, for that matter), they can just be insanely bleak or violent or whatever else makes me feel dirty afterwards. Think the kind of movie that exists inside another movie which is trying to make a ham-handed point about the depravity of mankind. No real-life snuff films.
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Compliance and Entrance.
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Silver Newt posted:Are there any others? It happens so rarely I can only think of Inside off the top of my head but that was a female victim, with a few people that got in the way There's two things that come to mind. There's Blood Widow, which is a pretty straight slasher whose only real gimmick is that that the killer is a woman. It's really the epitome of a "made it in my backyard over a weekend" movie, and I couldn't get through it. The only thing I liked was the costume for the killer, which was a sort homemade-ninja gear and a white porcelain mask. The other one that comes to mind is WΔZ, which also goes under the terrible title of The Killing Gene. The bare-bones premise is that it's the same setup as Saw, but with a woman as the Jigsaw figure, but according to its fans it's really more of a response to Saw and a reworking of some of its themes. Hell of a cast too; Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Hardy, and Selma Blair as the killer.
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Marshal Radisic posted:The other one that comes to mind is WΔZ, which also goes under the terrible title of The Killing Gene. The bare-bones premise is that it's the same setup as Saw, but with a woman as the Jigsaw figure, but according to its fans it's really more of a response to Saw and a reworking of some of its themes. Hell of a cast too; Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Hardy, and Selma Blair as the killer. Only according to its fans?    Not exactly trying to be subtle there. Also the movie got retitled "The Killing Gene" because everyone kept calling it "Waz".
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Alvarez IV posted:I'm having a really miserable winter and I need to shock myself out of complacency, so I'm looking for particularly extreme examples of disturbing films. The kind of movies where, after you see them, you're hoping that whoever made or liked them is locked up someplace. My frame of reference would be something like A Serbian Film or Salo or the tail end of Megan Is Missing, although your examples don't have to be sexual (or good, for that matter), they can just be insanely bleak or violent or whatever else makes me feel dirty afterwards. Think the kind of movie that exists inside another movie which is trying to make a ham-handed point about the depravity of mankind. No real-life snuff films. Cannibal Holocaust Martyrs Eden Lake Where is Kvolt? This is totally his area of expertise.
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Neumonic posted:Cannibal Holocaust Nekromantik just got a Blu release, so he's probably masturbated himself to death.
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Jedit posted:Nekromantik just got a Blu release, so he's probably masturbated himself to death. I just figured it was a Kvlt parachute account whose copy of The Bunny Game had probably been worn down to pieces. Also probably those Guinea Pig movies and The Poughkeepsie Tapes sound up your annually, can't vouch for the quality of them (assumably poo poo) since that's not my bag.
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Actually I'll half heartedly recommend The Den and My Little Eye which I have seen and are all (spoilers) fairly bleak reflections on humanity.
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schwenz posted:I love the idea of a slasher film with Ronald Reagan killing screaming teenagers. Ronald Reagan already killed screaming teenagers by way of his economic policy. 
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Alvarez IV posted:I'm having a really miserable winter and I need to shock myself out of complacency, so I'm looking for particularly extreme examples of disturbing films. The kind of movies where, after you see them, you're hoping that whoever made or liked them is locked up someplace. My frame of reference would be something like A Serbian Film or Salo or the tail end of Megan Is Missing, although your examples don't have to be sexual (or good, for that matter), they can just be insanely bleak or violent or whatever else makes me feel dirty afterwards. Think the kind of movie that exists inside another movie which is trying to make a ham-handed point about the depravity of mankind. No real-life snuff films. I Spit On Your Grave Last House on the Left I've only seen the original (1978), so I can't speak for the remake (2010). LHOTL I have only seen the remake (2009), not original (1972).
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Africa Addio is just miserable. So is the rape-porn feature Forced Entry. EDIT: Not the Lizzy Borden remake, but the original 1970s film. And not the R-rated slasher remake of it, but the original legit porn version of it. EDIT 2: Actually, just thinking about how many versions of a single rape-porn slasher movie there are is making me miserable.
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Suicide is a grotesque and meaningless death-porn slog and it's also freely available on youtube. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POmpsBHbhgI
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penismightier posted:Suicide is a grotesque and meaningless death-porn slog and it's also freely available on youtube. Enjoy! Troma's youtube channel hosting 480p copies of virtually every single film they've ever produced or distributed is the greatest loving thing.
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penismightier posted:Suicide is a grotesque and meaningless death-porn slog and it's also freely available on youtube. Enjoy! I had no idea Troma had distribution rights to this film.
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Trailer for Spring by Aaron Moorehead and Justin Benson who most recently directed Bonestorm for VHS: Viral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zpThOBiPxM
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The MSJ posted:Trailer for Spring by Aaron Moorehead and Justin Benson who most recently directed Bonestorm for VHS: Viral. Looks kinda shite.
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schwenz posted:I love the idea of a slasher film with Ronald Reagan killing screaming teenagers. Something slightly relevant, the comic 'The Auteur' deals with a dude trying to make a 'President's Day' horror movie. Unsure if Reagan is involved, but I do know drugs, murderers, bodacious booties (plot point, fyi), actual murder, bleeding from your pores, the justice system, and hollywood is involved. It kinda dips it's toes in horror from time to time, but it has more DNA shared with skateboard decks and indie comix than actual horror movies. Still, I imagine plenty of people here would enjoy.
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H.P. Shivcraft posted:The trailer for Del Toro's latest, the Gothic ghost story Crimson Peak, has dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBlG8Lv01k Looks like it'll be good but god drat that's some poo poo CGI.
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K. Waste posted:Looks kinda shite. I loved it but it's effectively a horror take on Before Sunrise/Before Sunset. If that doesn't sound compelling it's not for you.
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flashy_mcflash posted:I loved it but it's effectively a horror take on Before Sunrise/Before Sunset. If that doesn't sound compelling it's not for you. I mean, besides generally not being interested in the plot (I'm getting more Summertime vibes than Before trilogy), I also mean that it literally looks kinda shite. It doesn't connote the sense of quasi-realism of a Linklater film, the staging and lighting just look flat and boring. Also, the acting looks pretty loving bad.
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